Invertebrate Species with Nonpelagic Larvae Have Elevated Levels of Nonsynonymous Substitutions and Reduced Nucleotide Diversities David W. Foltz OriginalPaper Pages: 607 - 612
Comparisons of Two Large Phaeoviral Genomes and Evolutionary Implications Nicolas DelaroqueWilhelm BolandRolf Knippers OriginalPaper Pages: 613 - 622
Marked Intragenomic Heterogeneity and Geographical Differentiation of nrDNA ITS in Larix potaninii (Pinaceae) Xiao-Xin WeiXiao-Quan WangDe-Yuan Hong OriginalPaper Pages: 623 - 635
Presence of dUTPase in the Various Human Endogenous Retrovirus K (HERV-K) Families Jens MayerEckart U. Meese OriginalPaper Pages: 642 - 649
Selective Pressure on the Allantoicase Gene During Vertebrate Evolution Davide VigettiGiorgio BinelliRosalba Gornati OriginalPaper Pages: 650 - 658
Highly Variable Polymorphism of the α-Amylase Gene Family in Litopenaeus vannamei (Crustacea Decapoda) Alain Van WormhoudtDaniel Sellos OriginalPaper Pages: 659 - 671
Speciation in Chlamydia: Genomewide Phylogenetic Analyses Identified a Reliable Set of Acquired Genes Csaba OrtutayZoltán GáspáriTibor Vellai OriginalPaper Pages: 672 - 680
A Comparison of Intraspecific Patterns of DNA Sequence Variation in Mitochondrial DNA, α-Enolase, and MHC Class II B Loci in Auklets (Charadriiformes: Alcidae) Hollie E. WalshVicki L. Friesen OriginalPaper Pages: 681 - 693
Mammalian Mutation Pressure, Synonymous Codon Choice, and mRNA Degradation Jubao DuanMarcos A. Antezana OriginalPaper Pages: 694 - 701
Evolutionary History and Mode of the amylase Multigene Family in Drosophila Ze ZhangNobuyuki InomataHirohisa Kishino OriginalPaper Pages: 702 - 709
Phylogeny and Self-Splicing Ability of the Plastid tRNA-Leu Group I Intron Dawn SimonDavid FewerDebashish Bhattacharya OriginalPaper Pages: 710 - 720
The Universal Ancestor and the Ancestor of Bacteria Were Hyperthermophiles Massimo Di Giulio OriginalPaper Pages: 721 - 730
Selection for Highly Biased Amino Acid Frequency in the TolA Cell Envelope Protein of Proteobacteria Alejandro P. Rooney OriginalPaper Pages: 731 - 736
Lineage-Specific Homogenization of the Polyubiquitin Gene Among Human and Great Apes Hiroshi TachikuiNaruya SaitouIturo Inoue OriginalPaper Pages: 737 - 744
Phylogenetic Analysis of Vertebrate Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) Multigene Families Yi-Ju LiStephen C. -M. TsoiSteven Shoei-lung Li Erratum Pages: 745 - 745